Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-01-24
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THE NEWS EPITOMlXED.
Saturdays senatorial ballot at Indian
apolis showed no change IN theFsltuasion.
The secretary Of the treasury has
issued q call for $l3.887.0O0 three per
cent bonds, payable on the 1st OF March.
The weekly bank statement shows:
Reserve increase. $l85, 600. Banks now
hold $3.50. 600 in excess Of the legal
requirements.
1t is reported that the British steamer
Nettuno, Capt. Humrnel. from Sunder-
land January ! for Baltimore, has been
abandoned at sea.
The British steamer Nepaul, from
London to Shanghai. collided with and
sunk q Chinese transport. One hundred
soldiers and several marines were
drowned. q
The Nebraska state horticultural So
ciety closed q weeks session at Lincoln
Saturday. Many valuable papers were
read, and the discussions were both
instructive and interesting.
A new island has been discovered in
tho Pacific ocean, latitude one degree
twenty-five minutes, south; longitude
ono, forty thee degrees, twenty minutes.
It il two and . hall miles long and tree
covered.
The pension office has Information
that 81. p. Metcalf, OF Denver. was ar
rested Friday in Norwich, Conn, charg-
ed with raising q government pension
check from $ls to $l28. he will be
taken to Denver for trial.
Bobby Adams. tried for the theft Of
$4,000 worth Of stamps from the Mime
apolis postofice, was found guilty by
the jury in the United States district
court in Chicago Saturday. The judge
deferred sentence.
The consignees OF the British steam
ship Granbrook, Capt. Smith, which
sailed from Newport, England, Novem-
Der 80. with / 500 tons Of steel blooms
for Philadelphia. have given her up as
lost, together with the crew, consisting
OF thirty men.
Representative Hammond has sub
mitted to the house from the Judiciary
committee q favorable report on the Dib-
BILE resolution authorizing the accept
tance by the house Of the OATH. OF office
made by Representative Aitken at home
In Sonth Carolina.
Rev. DR.. Arthur Swaseri, the veneer
able ex-pastor OF the third Presbyterian
church Of Chicago. died Saturday morn
ing from q stroke OF apoplexy sustained
two days ago.. His last sermon was one
delivered as the funeral Of his friend the
late Judge Rodgers, one week ago.
The secretary OF the interior has d.
rectsd the commissioner OF the general
land Office to survey and plat, prepare.
tary to appraisement and sale, ell OF the
lands embraced in the several abandon
neutrality-suspicious. E. liz #c.s::e:
covers that portion of Fort Randall re-
servation east OF the Missouri river.
Rumors OF war are becoming more
and more frequent. The North German
National Gazette and Cologne Gazette,
as we'll as the Times, Standard and Daily
News. of London, all report that France
is making elaborate preparations to dis
patch TO the German frontier strong re-
Inducements OF arms.
The Scottish Protestant alliance has
sent to Quesn Victoria q memorial set
ting forth that the aggyessions of the
papacy in Great Britain and the suprem-
acy Of the pope are subversive OF the
queens authority and OF the peoples
rights and liberties, and that the ayowed
aim of the papacy is the vatican's con-
quest and subsection Of Great Britain.
The court Of Shs queens bench at
Montreal Saturday unanimously con-
frmed the Judgment OF the inferior
court in the Hoke exsradltion case,
maintaining the e~xtradition and order
ing Hoke to be handed over to the
United States suthesities upon the
warrant Of the minister Of justice. He
will probably be taken to Peoria Wed.
nesday next.